While working on a magento e-commerce website i found that customers were receiving the “unsecure items” warning during the checkout process. I used various tools to find the offending item, but was unsuccesful, nothing would tell me what this “unsecure item” was. One thing that i had ignored but suspected was a reference in Firefox’s “View Page Info” window under the media tab. The address column identified it as “data:image/gif,AAAA” and the size was “unknown” and the type was “image.” I investigated this item further and found a reference to it inside the lightbox CSS file used as a background-image to create some workaround for an IE issue with the lightbox. I replaced the base64 background-image reference with a spacer GIF file url, updated the magento cache and voilà, no more unsecure item warnings in IE!
what is the website?
http://www.q3ats.com
Sorry to let you know, but the error does in fact appear on IE6 – here for example: https://www.q3ats.com/alcohawk-one-test
That page is not designed to be viewed through a secure connection. As the first sentence of the post says it is the checkout process that needs to be secure and where you don’t want the notice popping up in IE.